DAY 1: Departure from USA
- Depart the USA to Panama. Your flight includes meals, drinks, and in-flight entertainment for your journey.
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DAY 2: Arrive in Panama City
- Arrival at Tocumen International Airport. You will be met at the airport in order to transfer to the Hotel.
- Overnight at Hotel Eurostars Panama City.
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DAY 3: Panama City & Miraflores Locks
- After breakfast, you will start with Panama City Tour & the Panama Canal starts out with a fascinating visit to the Miraflores Locks Visitor Center. You will then continue to the Biodiversity Museum Continue for lunch to the Casco Viejo historical part of town. End the tour with a historical walking tour through the historic center which is home to beautiful restored colonial houses and interesting architecture, beautiful cathedrals and plazas. One of the most interesting sites on this tour are the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal where you will witness the raising or lowering of a ship as it passes through this impressive engineering feat. The Miraflores Visitors Center also contains a Canal Museum which holds information on its history from the first construction efforts by the French to its upcoming expansion.
- Overnight at Hotel Eurostars Panama City.
- Meal: Breakfaast, Lunch
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DAY 4: Embera Indians Village at Chagres Tour
- A perfect opportunity to visit an indigenous village in the midst of an exceptionally wonderful natural setting that supports in harmony their lifestyle and traditions. The Embera indigenous people still live today as many decades ago in their original homes deep in the Darien. Learn about their traditional dances, music, singing, use of plants and flowers as natural medicine, construction of their housing and many more customs they are still practicing.
- Overnight at Hotel Eurostars Panama City.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 5: Soberania National Park & Gamboa
- After breakfast the tour begins with Soberania National Park. Soberania National Park is considered to be one of the most accessible areas for bird watching and wildlife observation in Central America. You will visit the Rainforest Discovery Center and climb up its observation tower, and then explore the nature trails nearby for birds, insects, flora and fauna. Avid bird watchers have the option to also bird along the prestigious Pipeline Road that is world famous among birdwatchers due to its high yield in bird species. Aerial tram tour is not available on Mondays. This tour also includes ecological expositions: orchid, butterflies and frog nurseries, as well as Sloths rescue center.
- Overnight at Hotel Eurostars Panama City.
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 6: Safari Tour on Gatun Lake
- After breakfast, drive to a small marina at the town of Gamboa, where the Chagres River meets the Panama Canal. Here you board an expedition boat and depart on an adventure that will include a voyage across Gatun Lake in the Panama Canal passing by gigantic cargo ships transiting the waterway, making contrast with the natural surroundings. Your expedition boat will allow for close approximations to rainforest covered islands (former hill tops) in Gatun Lake to search for White-faced Capuchin, Mantled Howler Monkey, Central American spider monkey, and Geoffreys Tamarin.
- Overnight at Hotel Eurostars Panama City.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 7: Departure, Panama City airport to home USA
- Transfer to Tocumen International Airport. Back to home USA
- Meal: Breakfast
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